Hrefna (DHC)Jul 20, 2023

If you are talking to someone who is not currently using:

* A password manager
* MFA on most or all accounts that allow it
* An up to date operating system on all of their devices

Please stop yourself from recommending:

* A VPN
* Tor
* Tails (or any variations/equivalents)

Just… rewind a bit and help with the first items first.

Show threadNina "Erina" Satragno 💫Jul 20, 2023

@hrefna VPNs or Tor are not particularly useful to protect users either! Are people really jumping at recommending those? Sheesh.

Also an updated browser is hugeeeee and probably the biggest difference other than you know, not running random executables.

Show threadFriedPicanteJul 21, 2023
@nsa @hrefna YES, VPNs are all over youtuber ads as THE way to protect yourself from hackers, trackers, and geo gating. That's one of the few things a lot of people know about.
Show threadShine
@cromulentkeebs @nsa @hrefna I really like streamers who don't go with that and just say "It's good for when you want a streaming service content that isn't accessible in your country", because yes, VPN is fine for that.
Jul 21, 2023 at 8:32pmWeb
Show threadFriedPicanteJul 22, 2023
@shine @nsa @hrefna Which is funny because it's not too difficult for services to figure out which IPs the VPNs are using and block them.